"US Air Force Wants to Replace Highly Effective Modern A-10" Topic
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| Tango01 | 08 Jan 2024 3:58 p.m. PST |
… With a ‘Flying Tinderbox'
""By scrapping the A-10, the Air Force is guaranteeing more Gold Star families will be created," said Charlie Keebaugh, president of the largest group of tactical-air-control party airmen.
The 2024 version of the National Defense Authorization Act (pdf) allows the Air Force to retire 42 A-10 Thunderbolt 2s in 2024, with the remaining 220 or so to be retired with prejudice by 2029. This retiring of the A-10 "Warthog" is predicated on the fantastical disproven idea that the A-10, which to this day is the most cost-effective plane in the Air Force's inventory, can be replaced by the F-35…" Main page
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| Bunkermeister | 08 Jan 2024 7:42 p.m. PST |
The Air Force all want to fly fighter planes and shoot down enemy planes. They hate ground attack operations and have been trying to weasel out of the A-10 since before it was first completed. Give them to the Army and let the AF fly what they want. Bunkermeister |
| rmaker | 09 Jan 2024 9:25 a.m. PST |
Yes, but that would involve scrapping the agreement allowing Army aviation only helicopters. |
 Dal Gavan  | 09 Jan 2024 1:09 p.m. PST |
Yes, but that would involve scrapping the agreement allowing Army aviation only helicopters. Couldn't your president just tell the USAF the agreement is finished and the AUSA is taking control of ground support? (And if the senior USAF officers don't like that then he'll be happy to approve their resignations of commissions in the morning?) 
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| Tango01 | 09 Jan 2024 2:07 p.m. PST |
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| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 11 Jan 2024 5:48 p.m. PST |
This issue comes around and around and around. I think Dal Gavan has the right approach. |
| Tango01 | 05 Mar 2024 9:39 p.m. PST |
Why the A-10 Warthog Retirement Is a Disaster link Armand |
| Tango01 | 09 Mar 2024 9:21 p.m. PST |
Still Flying to the Little Big Horn link Armand |
| Tango01 | 23 Mar 2024 10:01 p.m. PST |
Air Force Massively Upgrades Classic A-10 Warthog With Weapons, Cyber & EW link Armand |
| Tango01 | 29 Apr 2024 9:53 p.m. PST |
A Mystery Country Is Trying to Snatch Up America's Extra A-10 Warthogs link Armand |
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says he's pretty happy with these babes...
